ISBN KS2 Comprehension 4 : Year 6, Ages 10-11 (for the new National Curriculum) book Educational English Paperback 40 pages

Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a collection of stimulating texts, together with questions that both build comprehension skills and widen vocabulary. Children are encouraged to pay close attention to literal meaning, make inferences and deductions, observe how writing is structured and identify literary devices. Book 4 reflects the broadening interests and word power of young people who will soon move to secondary school, or have now done so. It includes:non-fiction texts covering the discovery a long-extinct mammoth, the origins of shells and the life of Robert Scottthe poignant 'last letter' from Scott to his widowclassic poetry from Rudyard Kipling, Edward Thomas, Edward Lear and William Wordswortha short extract from 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare and fiction from R.L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickensautobiographies and biographical fiction from Roald Dahl and Alison Prince.